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There are three (well, four) main types of IC:

1. The common or garden one, the Nethercott One Design. So called after the chap who drew the lines of the one design hull, and the version sailed at...

A horrible thing to read.

ooo…er…

Wonderful pictures, Martin.

90% of the Turkish people in Britain didn’t vote for Erdogan, apparently. The handful of Turks whom I know here certainly didn’t!

Mind you, I’m about as likely to know an Erdogan-voting Turk as I...

https://i.postimg.cc/Hs21jQ2S/5453-D24-C-C89-A-4-C7-D-92-A5-05798-F37-CE53.jpg

Correct; apparently one of the advantages of Walton on Naze for ICs is that you can just park on the mud for a couple of minutes.

#2 sailing his Squib:
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This:

https://i.postimg.cc/Y99VxRFJ/IMG-1436.png

I once owned a Changjiang 750 motorcycle, and commuted to work on it, which comes close, but I have to admit that the steam canoe is in a class of its own.

May I refer you to my excellent advice...

I have to admit it. :d

“If it was good enough for Uffa Fox…”:d

Listen to your parents.

with reference to Breakaway’s tag line:

https://i.postimg.cc/Pxq21qDy/IMG-2690.jpg

Try them parboiled and then wok fried with sweet chestnuts, and shards of fried bacon.

​“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest...

#1 son has resumed sailing his International Canoe… a little more practice is indicated but he’s discovered an active fleet at Walton and Frinton YC and is determined to “get back on the sliding...

My father had, following WW2,
… a rather dishy Alvis two door tourer
An Austin Cambridge derisively called “the family car” after I arrived
A very desirable (now!) Land Rover 2a LWB Station Wagon...

That will be 2024.

Chapeau!

An interesting article on Bulgaria:

https://medium.com/@snowythefirst/how-bulgaria-secretly-saved-ukraine-and-why-kiril-petkov-is-an-unsung-hero-of-this-war-5b13a292bd75

Crustaceans. Eating a giant insect is gross.

I have read that the chief culprit is an adult female.

Since male orcas are Mummy’s boys who never learn to hunt and who depend on Mummy for all their (human length) adult lives, and since she has...

They are a protected species and it’s not easy to carry a high powered rifle on a yacht in European waters.

I think that to take out an adult orca you would want one of these:
...

Quite an interesting article by Shankar Narayan:

https://shankar20.medium.com/europe-hits-scale-putins-russia-hits-the-slant-7bcb0e4b2ab0

Racing schooners commonly have the masts quite close together with a smaller foresail and a much bigger mainsail.

The small foresail is usually of heavier cloth and is used almost like a trysail,...

yikes.

Ukraine has a free press, subject to operational security.

They were bang up to date, though. They were early adopters of guns, and they had clocks. Philip the Good captured Joan of Arc and handed her over to his English allies, who put on a show trial and...

Stefan Korshak’s report for yesterday:

https://medium.com/@Stefan.Korshak/day-453-may-22-border-shenanigans-the-net-awash-and-probably-genius-ukrainians-b89b31a60384

I don’t have any more, but if you open Instagram and type in:

mytika_1945

you will find that her current owner has posted lots!

For a festival of steam engine eccentricity, visit North Wales.

This isn’t Elon Musk.

https://i.postimg.cc/yYLsPZC4/IMG-2697.jpg

It’s Charles the Bold, whose cruelty, petulance and arrogance destroyed the Duchy of Burgundy.

A well set out assessment.

https://youtu.be/n5eUh3_eo9E

Really very good.

If only Charles the Bold could have hung on for another 500 years, his thoroughly modern duchy could have taken its place as a member state of the EU. So near and yet so far!

On the whole, Charles is not a good name for a European ruler:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_the_Bold

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XII_of_Sweden
...

“Valois Burgundy was a thoroughly modern Duchy…!”

Anything on the rumour that Zaluzny and Syrsky were both injured?

Yes please - I liked it!

Seriously I’m delighted that Ros Atkins will be doing this.

Mytika. Wanderer II may have had an influence on my design of the rig!

But Wanderer II is four feet longer!

Photo taken by Ned Philips in Veere, Netherlands, in 1986. Ned and Kate Phillips...

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The thing about this picture is that the boat is absolutely tiny: she is 18 feet long on deck.

If Zaluzny isn’t thinking “Stalingrad” as he extends the encirclement of the totally useless remains of Bakhmut, I shall be surprised,

Zelensky is in Japan at the G7 meeting - smart move, he can embarrass both Lula and Modi.

He called in at the Arab League Summit on the way. The Middle East lives on Ukrainian wheat…

Meanwhile...

I have extremely strong views on this.

The one political dream of my life, from 16 onwards, has been progress towards European Union.

I had been an activist in a small way and had the pleasure...

Stefan Korshak yesterday:

https://medium.com/@Stefan.Korshak/may-18-day-449-vyshevanka-day-dueling-missiles-dudes-in-the-marsh-ab6a04594e82

Big news:

Ukraine war: US to support providing F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65649471

This looks as if a very well planned and very well executed...

Tom, same comment as Paul. Do keep it going.

That’s exactly what I think.

Same here, but not sailboat building. He had been a friend of my younger son’s best friend’s father, another doctor, who died unexpectedly a few months ago. Recognised him from the funeral.

Same...

My late father was in the RN, 1939-45, and absolutely detested guns.

Mind you, he also said that the most frightening people he met in the whole war, Germans Italians and Japanese included, were...

Here we go:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/politics/us-allies-f-16-jets-ukraine/index.html

The last piece in the jigsaw.

The USA won’t send F16s to Ukraine but will not stop its allies from...

I had no adverse reactions. No hangover, nothing.

But I have spotted that a little corner of my mind, one that I generally ignore since I stopped smoking, has been quietly thinking “How do I get...

I’ve said this before, but my favourite film is “The man who shot Liberty Vallance”, a late John Ford western in which he cast the draft dodger John Wayne as the morally irreproachable tough guy and...